A Voice from the Chorus
by TERTZ, Abram [pseud. of Andrei Sinyavsky] (text); Kyril Fitzlyon (translation); Max Hayward (translation; introduction)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First English Language Edition. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; [xxiv],[4],5-328pp. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light sunning to spine ends and board margins, else Near... Read More
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Secret Strangers (Signed, Limited)
by TESSIER, Thomas
Arlington Hts: Dark Harvest, 1992. Signed by the author. First, Deluxe Edition, limited to 250 copies, this being #9. Octavo (23.5cm); brown boards titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket photo by Guillermo; 245pp.; faint rubbing to corners, Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $21.95) with light rubbing to the lower front corner at flap, Near Fine. Includes matching... Read More
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![The Promised Land: a narrative featuring the life history and adventures of Frank J. Brown, pioneer, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and founder of the Quaker settlement of Friendswood [Memorial Edition for the Frank J. Brown Memorial Garden Center]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/592/691/1531691592.0.m.jpg)
The Promised Land: a narrative featuring the life history and adventures of Frank J. Brown, pioneer, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and founder of the Quaker settlement of Friendswood [Memorial Edition for the Frank J. Brown Memorial Garden Center]
by [TEXAS] McGINNIS, Edith B.
Friendswood, TX: by the Author, 1969. Third edition. Signed by the author on title page. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 168pp; illus. Fine copy, with presentation on front endpaper from seven Friendswood residents to a Gordon Aubers. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, bright and unworn. History of the town of Friendswood, Texas, by the daughter of its founder. Originally published... Read More
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On the Long Tide
by [TEXAS FICTION] KREY, Laura
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; maroon top-stain; 642pp. Tight, straight and unmarked, with top-stain deep and unfaded; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly sunned and edge-rubbed with a short closed tear to upper margin of front panel; Very Good. An epic novel of... Read More
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Quincie Bolliver
by [TEXAS] KING, Mary
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); taupe cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; lavender topstain; dustjacket; [vi],[1]-425,[1]pp. Some foxing and dust-soil along the right edge of the rear pastedown, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), showing light wear to extremities, a small... Read More
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El Vaso Verde (The Green Vase)
by [TEXAS FICTION] BERGSON, William
New York: Vantage Press, Inc, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); olive green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-176pp. Pinpoint wear to base of spine, with a small rubbed spot with minor board exposure to lower rear board edge; Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, uncilpped (priced $3.95), with light wear to... Read More
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The Clothing Workers: A Study of the Conditions and Struggles in the Needle Trades
by [TEXTILE INDUSTRY] [CPUSA] HARDY, Jack (pseud. Dale Zysman)
New York: International Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Orange cloth boards, lettered in black; dustjacket; 256pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in a very bright, crisp dustwrapper - minutely chipped along bottom edge, else close to Fine and most uncommon thus. An entirely pro-Communist account of unionization in the ILGWU and the Furrier's Union, with the expected attacks upon... Read More
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Textiles of Highland Guatemala
by [TEXTILES] O'NEALE, Lila M.
Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1945. First Edition. Quarto. 29cm. Publisher's original terracotta cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 465pp. A little minor bumping and wear to extremities, a little discoloration to the cloth here and there, strong and solid with a slight lean. A handsome copy. Internally clean with some light isolated... Read More
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Sultan Stork and Other Stories and Sketches... Now First Collected to which Is Added the Bibliography of Thackeray Revised and Considerably Enlarged
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace;
London: George Redway, 1887. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Original green publisher's cloth, stamped in black and gold on front and spine; plain endpapers; xviii, [2], 268pp. A clean and attractive copy, somewhat shaken, with one gathering slightly pulled, rear hinge repaired: Good or better. VAN DUZER 211.
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Vanity Fair
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace; John T. Winterich (introd)
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, (1979). Limited Edition. Octavo (24.5cm); full navy blue leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; 759pp; with illustrations throughout by Thackeray Introduction by John T. Winterich. A fine, unread copy; part of the publisher's 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. "Notes From the Archives"... Read More
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Vanity Fair: A Novel Without A Hero
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First UK Edition. Mixed or later issue, with "Mr. Pitt" on p.453 line 31, lacking the suppressed woodcut of Marquis of Steyne, without the rustic type heading on p.1, and with the engraved title page dated 1848. This copy bound without the four ad leaves. Includes engraved half-title and ad leaf for The Great... Read More
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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq, Colonel in the Service of her Majesty Queen Anne. Written by Himself
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1852. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Publisher's printed terra-cotta wrappers; fore- and bottom edges uncut; 193pp. Text in two columns. Wrappers slightly chipped at margins (not costing any printed titles); mild, faint foxing to title page; still easily Very Good. Issued as no. 175 in Harper's Library of Select Novels. Rear wrapper advertises... Read More
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Etchings by the Late William Makepeace Thackeray while at Cambridge Illustrative of University Life etc etc.
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
London: Henry Sotheran, 1878. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Original cloth-backed printed drab boards; [16]pp; illus. Eleven b/w engravings on eight leaves, printed recto-only. Boards discolored at upper margin; front hinge thinly cracked (internal); Very Good, with plates fresh and unfoxed. No hand-coloring to this copy.
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Mr. Brown's Letters: To a Young Man about Town
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1901. First Edition. First Printing, one of 500 numbered copies, of which this is no.28. Octavo (21cm); yellow cloth spine over marbled paper-covered boards, with title label on spine; fore- and lower edges untrimmed; viii,210pp. Some pages of text unopened. Spine-tanned, with modest rubbing, peeling, and fading to spine ends and board edges, small crack... Read More
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
by [THACKERAY, William Makepeace]
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854-55. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Two volumes in publisher's dark blue cloth, blindstamped; yellow endpapers; vol. I: [ii]-viii380pp; vol. II: [ii]-viii375pp; engraved title pages and 46 plates on inserted leaves, wood-engraved decorative capitals and vignettes. Without half-titles, as issued. A straight set, rubbed, minor dampstain to lower edge of front board, vol. I; plates lightly... Read More
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The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
by [THACKERAY, William Makepeace]
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869. Two volumes bound together. Octavo (23.5cm). Half-bound in twentieth-century brown sheep, red cloth over boards; marbled endpapers; [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [9] 10-210, [1-2], [i] ii [3-5] 6-202pp; extensively illustrated with in-text wood engravings. 1932 ex-libris of Ruth Stuart to verso of front free endpaper. A handsome copy in a sturdy binding, clean and... Read More
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The Four Georges. Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life
by THACKERAY, W[illiam] M[akepeace]
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1860. First Edition. 12mo (9.5cm). Red cloth, titled in gilt; yellow endpapers; 241,[1],6pp; 6-page publisher's catalogue at rear, 2pp catalogue at front; 16 wood engravings. Complete but rubbed, front hinge cracked and repaired, gathering E nearly detached: Good only. Previously published in the Cornhill Magazine. "This is the first publication in book... Read More
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The History of Pendennis
by THACKERAY, W[illiam] M[akepeace]
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848-1850. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). 24 installments in 23 parts, bound in yellow paper wrappers, some restored. Housed in a red Solander box, half leather over red cloth, titled in gilt on spine, externally stained and a little grubby but internally clean, with red cloth inner chemise. Some light toning and offsetting from illustrations... Read More
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![The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century [in Parts]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/458/986/599986458.0.m.jpg)
The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century [in Parts]
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-1859. First Edition. First issue, with "actresses" instead of "ancestresses" on p.207, line 15 (No.7, Vol.1). 24 octavo parts n original printed wrappers; illus. Housed in a quarter leather clamshell case with chemise. Skillful restoration to lower 1.5cm of front wrapper on No.1. Wrappers lightly and uniformly soiled, lightly worn overall, though complete. Text edges... Read More
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The Rose & The Ring
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace (novel); TITMARSH, Michael Angelo (marginal glosses); KREDEL, Fritz & TITMARSH, T.A. (illustrations)
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1991. Limited Edition. Small quarto (26.5cm); full red leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and cover; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; [6],xvi,119,[5]pp; illus. A Fine copy, without the Publisher's Notes pamphlet. Part of "The Collector's Library of Famous Editions" series. Kredel drew the illustrations with the assistance of Titmarsh. [81875]. ... Read More
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Notes for Speech at Dinner October 11 1855 by W.M. Thackeray on the Eve of His Departure for America: Letter to Wm. C. Macready
by THACKERAY, W. M.; George Hodder; W.H. Lambert
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1896. One of 40 copies privately printed by James Beale for W.H. Lambert. The Compliments of William H. Lambert card tipped in at front flyleaf, and William H. Lambert's The Critic (January 3, 1891) review on Thackeray's The Yellowplush Correspondence laid in. Quarto (31cm); parchment spine over tan paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on... Read More
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![British Autography. A Collection of Fac-similies of the Handwriting of Royal and Illustrious Personages with Their Authentic Portraits [vols 1-2]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/337/966/1494966337.0.m.jpg)
British Autography. A Collection of Fac-similies of the Handwriting of Royal and Illustrious Personages with Their Authentic Portraits [vols 1-2]
by [THANE, John]
London: J. Thane, [n.d.; ca 1793-1798]. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Two volumes in contemporary leather, rebacked, gilt-tooled at edges and turn-ins, leather on boards painted over with red paint, all edges sprinkled blue; blue marbled endpapers; I: [iv],40pp; II: [iv],54; with frontispieces, engraved title pages, and 162 engraved plates, with brick red decorative borders and tissue guards. A sound... Read More
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Show Business
by THAROOR, Shashi
New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1991. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 310pp. Small spot of soil to rear board, else a Near Fine copy. In original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced Rs.195 at base of front flap); clean and crisp, Near Fine. The acclaimed Indian novelist's third book, in the uncommon first Indian printing. Tharoor won the... Read More
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![Adventurous Alliance: The Story of the Agassiz Family of Boston [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/414/472/1638472414.0.m.jpg)
Adventurous Alliance: The Story of the Agassiz Family of Boston [Inscribed]
by THARP, Louise Hall
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xiv],[3],4-354pp. Inscribed on front endpaper, "For / Dorothy Cooney / best wishes / Sincerely, / Louise Hall Tharp". Spine-wear, foxing at edges of textblock, finger-soil at lower edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustwrapper... Read More
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Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvels in the Vast Wonderland West of the Missouri River (Six Books in One Volume)
by THAYER, William M.
Norwich, CT: The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1887. First Edition. Thick octavo (24cm); contemporary tan calf; red and dark brown morocco spine labels; all edges marbled; xxxvi, 715pp, frontispiece. Amateur repairs to backstrip and textblock preliminaries. Original leather shows some scratches, abrasions and wear; extremities rubbed with material loss. Minor soiling and foxing throughout textblock; over 350 b/w text-illustrations... Read More
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